Our first bananas :)

[MrC]

Due to the floods we haven't eaten bananas for over 6 months despite living in the banana growing capital of the world. In the supermarket they are rather shockingly about $10-12 a kilo at the moment!

We have however managed to grow these fine specimens in our back garden:




The funny looking thing is the flower which I had never seen till I moved here. It normally dangles off the bottom of the bunch of bananas.

Now I just have to dream until they go yellow .

Wow, they're fab, Mr CM! I can't recall the last time I bought bananas - they've been about $15 a kilo for that long! Enjoy.

Seriously @ the prices!! I will clearly have to go without bananas for the next 3 weeks while we are over!

They are fab

they look great at how much they are over there

Fantastic!!!!!
Well done mr cm!!
Cannot believe the price of bananas out there! Not sure if ds would be able to survive- he *loves* them!

Wow very impressive I've managed to grow a couple of tomatos this year and thought that was good

Fantastic!!

I've never seen the flower either, despite seeing fields and fields of banana trees. Having said that, the bananas in said fields were always covered in blue plastic bags.

That's fab! I am shocked at how much they cost over there at the moment!!